On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Bastien Nocera
<hadess hadess net> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
>
> > Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers.
> It is still more
> > or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer.
> We wanted to
> > make use of Zeitgeist in storing "Alarms" as a type of
> "scheduled event", it
> > sounds like shoehorning but it is not. I am just hesitant
> because I myself
> > as a GNOME member do not want to use a technology or force
> integrate it
> > without GNOME agreeing of the usage of Zeitgeist.
>
>
> It might help for you to elaborate why Zeitgeist is needed
> there.
> Clocks is intended to be a really simple application.
>
>
>
> We need to be able to store Alarms. And those alarms should still work
> while the clocks application is closed. For that we need a central
> storage for the scheduled event which is the alarm, to notify all
> subscribers including Shell that an alarm went off. Same would go for
> timers. What do you think?
I think that somebody with a hammer sees every problem as a nail. You
don't need to store alarms in Zeitgeist, you need to store the fact that
the alarm went off in Zeitgeist.
Both are stored into Zeitgeist. The fact that there was a scheduled event (alarm) is there until the alarm time is reached. The entry is then changed from scheduled activity to a notification.
This is technical really I think we should take this into irc.
Seif
